Jason black, gay and a selfdeclared hustler directs himself, follows directions, narrates, invents, confesses, makes claims and ultimately challenges the camera, the film team composed of shirley clarke and carl lee with whom she also collaborated on the connection and the cool world. Rapidgator portrait of jason 1967 1080p bluray x264 sadpanda. A budding filmmaker has agreed to pay for the fix if the addicts will allow him to film them. Shirley clarke celebrity profile check out the latest shirley clarke photo gallery, biography, pics, pictures, interviews, news, forums and blogs at rotten tomatoes. Portrait of jason was shot in clarke s apartment in the chelsea hotel during a 12hour heave beginning on the evening of dec. Portrait of jason shirley clarke, 1967 9pm saturday, december 3 rd 1966. In a fairer world, portrait of jason would have done what shirley clarke s earlier works didnt. Faux continuity also marks the 1967 documentary portrait of jason, the.
Portrait of jason shirley clarke, 1967 senses of cinema. A restored print of shirley clarke s 1967 documentary. Jason has been promising for years to anyone wholl listen hes on the verge of developing a nightclub act. Yearning to watch portrait of jason on your tv or mobile device at home. A stuffy room at the chelsea hotel is the stage for the magnetic jason holliday and his profound discourses on sexuality, race, and class. This may be why only one of shirley clarke s films, the connection, is listed in the otherwise exhaustive establishment reference work leonard maltins movie and video guide.
Holliday, a gay black man, had an eventful, tumultuous life with experiences that ranged from domestic servant to male prostitute to stage performer. Portrait of jason delves inside a hustlers world movie. Peeling away the layers in a portrait of jason wbur news. Theres only one role you can do, jason, and thats you. If your cloud dvr fills up, well make space by deleting your oldest recordings marked save until space is needed. Jason holliday, shirley clarke, carl lee summary the highlights of a 12hour interview with aaron payne, alias jason holliday, a former houseboy, wouldbe cabaret performer, and selfproclaimed hustler who, while drinking and smoking cigarettes and pot, tells stories and observations of what it was like to be black and gay in 1960s america. Portrait of jason and the life of movies the new yorker. Black gay prostitute jason holliday is rigorously interviewed on his story and character. Nov 21, 2014 the version i wrote of was a thenexemplary european issue from second run dvd. Film critic elvis mitchell, cinematographer robert fiore. The evening of december 3, 1966, director shirley clarke and crew filmed jason for twelve straight hours as he told stories about his life, loves and work. Shirley clarke s groundbreaking documentary film is in jeopardy. He was interesting, but i kept feeling i was witnessing the exploitation of jason by rich white upper class artsy woman shirley clarke.
Laurence kardish, one of the longtime mainstays of momas film department, is writing a biography of the filmmaker shirley clarke who died in 1997. I thought it was more important to be some kind of goddamned junkie who. Jason black, gay and a selfdeclared hustler directs himself, follows directions, narrates, invents, confesses, makes claims and ultimately challenges the camera, the film team composed of shirley clarke and carl lee with whom she also collaborated on the. Portrait of jason shirley clarke, 1967 vhsrip vo divx clasico. When the clarke film was released, it was seen by fledgling recording engineerrecord producer, michael rashkow. A crash course in how to paint an audiovisual portrait through documentary. Experimental filmmaker shirley clarke, produced, edited, directed and. Peeling away the layers in a portrait of jason wjct news.
Portrait of jason a film by shirley clarke official trailer youtube. That is why holliday born aaron payne in 1924 became the subject of a milestone motion picture which has been debated and dissected since clarke s film was released in 1967. There may be more revealing exchanges in rome is burning, the 1970 portrait of shirley clarke that burch codirected with andre s. Portrait of jason is a fascinating, moving depiction of jason holliday, an african american gay prostitute and aspiring nightclub performer. Essays and criticism on shirley clarke vincent canby. Portrait of jason 1967 free download rare movies cinema of. Milestone film and video has given us demanders something to rejoice in this season by putting out their restorations of both jason and ornette out on dvd and bluray discs, as volumes 2 and 3 of their project shirley series volume 1, of clarkes magnificent the connection, awaits a home. Peeling away the layers in a portrait of jason in her classic 60s documentary, shirley clarke profiles a loquacious 33yearold gay hustler who dreams of having a nightclub act. A revealing 60s portrait, opening eyes in theaters again shirley clarke s 1967 film portrait of jason has returned to theaters after a meticulous restoration. Portrait of jason is a blackandwhite, 16mm, 105minute film wherein a bespectacled, aging africanamerican hustler, looking dapper in a white shirt and blue blazer, rehearses his life, times, ambitions, and philosophies of livin before a single camera that does its best to keep up with him and often succeeds quite beautifully jasons rap does occasionally exceed the amount of film in. Put the camera on jason holliday, a gay black man with no money, and let him talk. For more information on screenings or home video purchase, please go to the distributors website. Raises profound questions about the nature of the self, about the relationship between fiction and reality, and about the way that film doesnt simply record raw truth but shapes it into something reflecting the filmmakers vision of life. She was also a director and editor of many famous works.
Milestone is having a big sale on blurays including the films of shirley clarke and lionel rogosin. Portrait of jason film restoration by dennis doros kickstarter. Portrait of jason 1967 shirley clarke, jason holliday, carl lee october 5, 2018 the highlights of a 12hour interview with aaron payne, alias jason holliday, a former houseboy, wouldbe cabaret performer, and selfproclaimed hustler who, while drinking and smoking cigarettes and pot, giggles his way through stories and observations of what. But for decades, shirley clarkes powerful and transgressive portrait of jason was unavailable and its original elements were thought to be lost. Hunting down a streaming service to buy, rent, download, or view the shirley clarke directed movie via subscription can. Shirley clarke october 2, 1919 september 23, 1997 was an american experimental and independent filmmaker. For years id felt like an outsider, so i identified with the problems of minority groups. On the night of december 2, 1966, clarke and a tiny crew convened in her apartment at the hotel chelsea to make a film. Oct 23, 2014 dennis doros is raising funds for portrait of jason film restoration on kickstarter. Thats excellent advice, but not with portrait of jason. Portrait of jason 1967 stream and watch online moviefone. May 02, 20 jason holliday nee aaron payne is the soloist in front of the camera in shirley clarke s seminal 1967 documentary, portrait of jason. Shirley like many others, found a subject to exploit.
Born shirley brimberg in new york city, she was the daughter of a polishimmigrant father who made his fortune in manufacturing. Film critic elvis mitchell, cinematographer robert fiore, dennis doros, producer rob epstein and filmmaker jeffrey friedman l,r attends the academy of motion picture arts and sciences special screening and discussion of shirley clarke s portrait of jason at pickford center for motion study on may 10, 20 in hollywood, california. Mystic fire video, inc the subject and constant object of this film is male prostitute jason holliday giving a streamofconsciousness confession of his life. The junkies then talk the director into trying heroin to better understand the subject. But in the films final third, portrait of jason is also a meditation on and revelation of ethics in documentary cinema, both intentionally and unintentionally. Aaron payne was a black, gay hustler and aspiring nightclub performer. Peeling away the layers in a portrait of jason sdpb radio. But in the films final third, portrait of jason is also a meditation on and revelation of ethics. Shirley clarkes portrait of jason, back in circulation.
Portrait of jason by shirley clarke a movie to download, on vod and legal streaming lacinetek. The star of shirley clarke s unforgettable portrait of jason is black, gay, hilarious, heartbreaking and on screen for every one of the film s 107 minutes. Over twelve straight hours in shirley clarkes penthouse suite at the chelsea hotel in new york city, clarke and her small crew trained a camera on jason holliday and waited for him to detonate. Jason holliday nee aaron payne is the soloist in front of the camera in shirley clarkes seminal 1967 documentary, portrait of jason. Portrait of jason is a 1967 documentary film directed, produced and edited by shirley clarke and starring jason holliday. You can watch recordings anytime, anywhere with your cloud dvr. Portrait of jason shirley clarke, 1967 by douglas buck july 30, 2019 3 minutes 622 words digital projection cinema moderne, part of the deuxx film series gay black conman and aspiring entertainer jason holliday sits before the camera in a posh chelsea hotel apartment getting more and more inebriated as he recounts his troubled childhood and.
Easily share your publications and get them in front of issuus. But itll be necessary to engage musicians, and so on. Over the course of a long december night auteur shirley clarke crafts a singular commentary on cinematic spectatorship as she and her partner, carl lee, train the cameras gaze on. Shirley clarke biography, movie highlights and photos. December 3, 1966, oscar winning filmmaker shirley clarke invites jason holiday, a black gay hustler, drug addict and transient to her chelsea hotel penthouse in new york city to film him for 12 hours nonstop telling stories from his turbulent life. A black male prostitute and aspiring entertainer recounts his life story for filmmaker shirley clarke. He is the star of shirley clarke s 1967 documentary portrait of jason. Portrait of jason project shirley, volume two blu ray bluray. With mike baileygates, gordon beeferman, jordan saunders brooks, lee ann brown.
Shirley clarkes films were always exploring the border between cinema verite and fiction and portrait of jason may well be her. Shirley clarke s groundbreaking documentary film is in jeopardy help us restore the print and release it for everyone to see. The arc of the jason presented in shirley clarke s film follows the planned structure of hollidays act almost to the letter hip cat to male bitch to tragic clown. Shirley clarkes portrait of jason by max goldberg noel burch. There, for twelve straight hours they filmed the oneandonly jason holliday as he spun tales, sang, donned costumes and reminisced about good times and bad behavior as a gay hustler, sometime houseboy and aspiring cabaret performer. But for decades, shirley clarke s powerful and transgressive portrait of jason was unavailable and its original elements were thought to be lost. Shirley clarke was born on october 2, 1919 in new york city, new york, usa as shirley brimberg. Essentially, the picture consists of an interview with jason, a young black homosexual and male prostitute.
So when milestone decided to rerelease portrait of jason as part of its series of restored films by shirley clarke, cofounder dennis doros had his work cut out for him. Jason craved attention, deserved attention and got attention. Pdf download doc holliday a family portrait pdf online. John powers, npr says more about race, class, and sexuality than just about any movie before or since. Portrait of jason 1967 shirley clarke, jason holliday.
Essays and criticism on shirley clarke ernest callenbach. Portrait of jason a film by shirley clarke official. Portrait of jason is a 1967 documentary film directed, produced and edited by shirley clarke and starring jason holliday ne aaron payne, 19241998 in 2015, the united states library of congress selected the film for preservation in the national film registry, finding it culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant. I thought it was more important to be some kind of goddamned junkie who felt alienated rather than to say i.
In portrait of jason, a man talks to the camera for almost an hour and a half. The first time i spoke with shirley clarke, in her chelsea hotel digs. She was a director and editor, known for the cool world 1963, skyscraper 1960 and the connection 1961. Apr 17, 20 in a fairer world, portrait of jason would have done what shirley clarkes earlier works didnt. And that is what makes shirley clarkes 1967 documentary portrait of jason so entertaining to watch. Jason holliday is a man that has his share of pain and has his own ways to cope with it all.
Issuu is a digital publishing platform that makes it simple to publish magazines, catalogs, newspapers, books, and more online. Over twelve straight hours in shirley clarke s penthouse suite at the chelsea hotel in new york city, clarke and her small crew trained a camera on jason holliday and waited for him to detonate. The drama of shirley clarke s portrait concerns the nature of jason s performances and an attempt to tear off the masks behind which this real swingin hip cat hides. In portrait of jason, a campy queen and naturalborn. Watch portrait of jason online stream full movie directv. Jason holliday june 8, 1924 june 15, 1998 birth name. Gen x veteran film critic cole smithey and millennial filmmaker mike lacy copiously consume international politics and culture through the prism of a. Auteur of groundbreaking and provocative films such as the connection, ornette. Jason holliday nee aaron payne is the soloist in front of the camera in shirley clarke s seminal 1967 documentary, portrait of jason. Jason and shirley reimagines the power struggle between shirley clarke and jason holliday that gave rise to clarkes iconic documentary portrait of jason. May 02, 20 peeling away the layers in a portrait of jason in her classic 60s documentary, shirley clarke profiles a loquacious 33yearold gay hustler who dreams of having a nightclub act. Portrait of jason by shirley clarke on vod lacinetek.
Apr 14, 20 portrait of jason was shot in clarkes apartment in the chelsea hotel during a 12hour heave beginning on the evening of dec. Jason holliday an audio portrait of jason cd baby music store. Dennis doros is raising funds for portrait of jason film restoration on kickstarter. Jafar panahis notfilm could be considered a descendant of jason hollidays notcabaret act. In 2015, the united states library of congress selected the film for preservation in the national film registry, finding it culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant. Portrait of jason is a disturbing but fascinating 90minute exercise in the avant garde earlier prints ran 105 minutes. Milestone film if reality tv has a redeeming value, its. Clarke was hip to all this, which is why the movie is titled portrait of jason and not simply jason. Portrait of jason is a 1967 experimental documentary film directed by shirley clarke it is a feature length interview of jason holliday, aka aaron payne 19241998, a friend of clarke s. Portrait of shirley a film in progress about shirley clarke. Portrait of jason, an arresting performance piece released in 1967, has a simple premise. A bloody but unbowed rebel, clarke has continued to make films primarily for herself and her clique of enthusiasts. Experimental filmmaker shirley clarke, produced, edited, directed and provided voiceover for this landmark film. A revealing 60s portrait, opening eyes in theaters.
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